我～
わが～ · waga～ · JLPT N2 · noun
our ~
🏠 我 = self; 我が + noun = our, as in 我が家 (waga-ya) = our home
Treat 我が as a possessive prefix: 我 means self, and が links it to the noun that follows. Examples: 我が国 (waga-kuni) = our country, 我が社 (waga-sha) = our company.
我 — hand 手 (扌) + dagger-axe 戈
Originally a pictograph of a serrated weapon or polearm, used in oracle bone script. It was borrowed phonetically to write the first-person pronoun 'I/me,' and that meaning eventually replaced the original sense of the weapon.